1.   In the program, the hostages re-live the tense days they spent under guard in East Africa.

2.   Administration officials say there is no need to perpetuate a ban hammered out during the tense days of the Cold War.

3.   But after a tense day of diplomatic double-dare, it seemed equally possible that the Israelis and the Palestinians would not resolve their differences.

4.   For two tense days, jurors wrestled over sentencing Terry Nichols to death.

5.   He knows the real money now lurks, tantalizingly close, if he can steady himself for another six tense days.

6.   In the second set, for instance, he was on the verge of making it a tense day.

7.   In this big-screen re-creation of those tense days, Bruce Greenwood is faced with the imposing task of embodying JFK.

8.   In those tense days, investors were unnerved by a series of currency devaluations and the dawning recognition that hundreds of Asian banks and companies were effectively insolvent.

9.   It was a tense day, recalled Bustamante, then a student at Stanford.

10.   On Wall Street, though, it was clearly a tense day.